CoPress

Host: Bryan Murley
Guests: Suzanne Yada, Kelsey Proud, Lauren Rabaino and Sarah Wood
Summary: #collegejourn is a weekly Sunday night conversation about college journalism that originally started on Twitter a couple of months ago. This past Sunday, the organizers hosted a discussion called “Bring-a-Prof” and the intent was to establish ways in which J schools across the country [...]

 

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This is something the news tribe did not understand went it first went online around 1996. It saw the Web as a good way to re-purpose its content from the old platform; and while the Web can do that, the idea of re-purposing news content had a huge intellectual cost. It did not help the [...]

A relatively quiet week, in my opinion.
I think it begs a mention, however, that there are not one, not two, but three BarCamp NewsInnovation jam sessions going down this weekend: Portland (9 to 5 Pacific) and Chicago on Saturday, and Miami (11 to 5 Eastern) on Sunday. These one of a kind events will be [...]

Host: Adam Hemphill
Guests: Anthony Pesce, Miles Skorpen, Joseph Agreda, Max Cutler, Justin Myers, Rick Martinez, David Estes
Summary: Excerpts from a roundtable discussion among student developers from across the country regarding Django-based content management systems (and a Ruby On Rails system from FIUSM). The entire conversation is available as a MP3 download.
Links:

Populous Project
Ochs
Nameless CMS
The Maneater
Gazjango

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News wikis haven’t make it big yet but, in my opinion, their day is soon.
In a conversation I was having with Joey Baker the other day, we were talking about micropayments, monetization, and how news differs from music, movies, and other forums of content. His argument is that news is “read once, and then file [...]

Three things you must click on

• Watch The Internet has turned the world on its head because because it destroys the traditional definition of economy: “rational actors maximizing their value through the acquisition/distribution of scarce resources.”
• Listen Journalism Now podcast. Episode number two is describing a community much like CoPress.
• Read Nationwide classroom No. 1: Writing for the Web Fantastic first steps to get your newsroom writing for the Web and breaking some habits that make sense in print, but not online.

Bryan talks with Jackie and Richard about the Amherst Wire, how the project was started, how their website operates, and a recent UMass student media summit.

 

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Although the Whitman Pioneer has had a web presence since 2007 when it launched a self-hosted version of Wordpress by Daniel Bachhuber and Andrew Witherspoon, we wanted to launch this semester with a redesign from the ground up. The result of this process launched last week with our first print issue of the semester.
The Design Process

When thinking about how [...]

Starting a business, even as a non-profit, can cost some money—or so we’ve learned here at CoPress.
Our hosting project is aimed at giving schools fast, reliable service on a well-supported open source platform. We’re doing this because we see a distinct need in college media to move online in a meaningful fashion and we believe [...]

We’re starting a new regular Friday feature here at CoPress called We Clicked On. It’s going to be a round-up of activity on the website, news from the Network, and other links of interest in the past week. If you’re interested in contributing, join our Newsgroup on Publish2, save links with “for:copress” in delicious, or [...]